Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side of the Great Lakes, last week, unwilling citizens of a Prohibition regime looked towards the promised land of Canada, saw it more promising still. Fat U. S. bootleggers chuckled over the prospect of a new source of whiskeys and fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen watched with interest. In the legislature of the Province of Ontario before crowded and expectant galleries, Premier Ferguson introduced his bill to do away with the present liquor laws* and substitute others based on the limited franchise laws of Ontario's sister province, Quebec. He faced an enthusiastic dripping Wet majority triumphantly elected last...
...Senate floor Mr. Reed is an impressive figure-steel-grey eyes, well-barbered white hair, one of the few Senators who has reached 65 without being either fat or lean, a voice that can ripple gently or ring magnificently or snarl menacingly. Herewith, one excerpt from Mr. Reed's prose and one from his oratory...
...century later, on the same day, Shrove Tuesday-a week ago-half a million people crowded into the town to participate in Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) with the definite purpose in mind of having a good time. Out of that picturesque escapade a hundred years ago has emerged the serious business of celebrating its anniversary. Pink-cheeked Iowans with Happy Hooligan hat complexes are frantically chased through the crowds by corpulent wives arrayed as Madame Gump...
Half a million people. Fat Tuesday. Negroes leading mule-drawn floats. Descendants of Acadians munching tac-tac (pop corn), beignets (doughnuts). Prankish youths in cowboy costumes smacking maidens on their fulsome, laughing lips. Public feasts. Electric bulbs. Bacchanalia Motorcycle policemen. Passenger agents. Twelfth Night Revelers. Heebie-Jeebies. Comus, Momus, Mystics. Proteus. More floats. Bourbon Street bounders. Swirling crowds tumbling over one another like waves as they surge through the streets, seeking favors from the nobility aboard the floats. Torches. Band music. "No Parking Along Parade Route." Revelry. Bootleggers. Streaming champagne bottles. Girls. Fat Tuesday. The mystery of night...
...work, paid not the slightest heed to the growing procession. She must get the shutters hung up and the doorstep scrubbed before suppertime. Then there would be coals to carry, and the dishes, the pots, the. . . Ach! Will busybodies never let a woman finish her work? What would this fat burgomaster be looking at her for? "Good evening, Mr. Burgomaster." ... Eh ? He was bowing? The burgomaster bowing at Marie Drazdorf, the butcher's drudge girl? At Marie Drazdorf, with a five-year-old son and a man too poor to marry...